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Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start the weekend.

Tom meets the superstar cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. One of the most sensitive and in demand cellists in the world, Sheku is also one of the busiest and right now alongside writing not one, but two new books on music, he is about to release a new album that pays tribute to his cellist hero Mstislav Rostropovich. Tom and Sheku take a walk round Rostropovich's old London neighbourhood to talk Shostakovich, Britten, the cello and how to be creative.

Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and composer and pianist Mark Springer also join Tom to talk about their new album with the Sacconi String Quartet, titled 'Sleep of Reason'. A unique artist collaboration which takes inspiration from the work of Goya, Neil and Mark talk to Tom about how this inspired the album.

As part of Wellbeing Week on the 蜜芽传媒, we delve into cutting edge research on the positive effects of music on perinatal womens鈥� mental health. Professor Daisy Fancourt has been researching the subject for a decade and discovered the profound effect music can have on reducing the symptoms of Post Natal Depression via group singing and musical involvement. We hear too from musical sessions from a charity called 鈥楤reathe Melodies鈥� who run singing workshops in collaboration with NHS hospitals and midwives throughout London for new mothers

Plus the continuation of 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of new commissions celebrating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Novello award winning composer Gavin Higgins joins to Tom to chat about his piece Cort猫ge for a Coal Mine that remembers the closure of the Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire, which marked the end of deep-pit coal mining in the UK, and the deep musical links forged in mining communities.

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